001He likes I'd like to thank you all for coming to the regularly scheduled May 27th board meeting. Um, can we get a roll call, Mr. Chair? We have a Excellent. I would consider a motion to Oh, do we have any changes? Oh, got ahead of myself. I know you. I heard you say I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Sorry about that. Kind of kind of making uh see what happens. Making fast work tonight. Do we have any changes to the agenda? We do not. I would consider a motion to adopt the agenda. So moved. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. The consent agenda tonight includes approving
002the minutes of the May 13th board meeting. Consider payment of bills including late pays and pre-authorization of payroll, insurance, utilities, officials, and automatic payments. And to adopt policy 5145, certified licensed professional and professional staff early notification of intent to resign or retire on second reading. Mr. Chair, I would move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Second discussion. All in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll adopt the agenda as presented for our round table. Looks like Matt didn't make it. Like it, huh? It appears. So this table after Yeah. or maybe wait. Well, and there's we can invite him back and or we can move on and if he comes in. If he comes in, we'll see him in there. Okay. Miss Thornley and Oer Gray. You want us to stand here and look?
003Whichever direction you'd like to look. We'd like you to do a song and dance right in the front. Actually, that's all right. Go ahead. Go ahead and do yours. Oh, no. Okay. Ours is just a really um quick thank you. Um we are so absolutely grateful for the opportunities that we've been able to be afforded um from support of the district with our growth in math recovery and becoming train the trainers for the district with AVMR um and moving that forward up into our middle and high schools is where I'm headed and being able to continue on with making certain that all of our students have those foundational skills that they and just having the opportunity to go to the conference every other year um because it's a it's a conference that's only held every
004other year now. um and being able to network with districts across the nation and knowing how they're implementing um all of the different parts and pieces that are uh offered and affordable for us through math recovery, with interventions, with um teaching programs and helping our teachers really know how students learn, not just reading, but math as well. and um bettering ourselves through some of the workshops that we attend and um continuing to grow ourselves so that we can continue to grow Fremont County. So um thank you. Thank you. It was an amazing experience and um it was nice that we had a little opportunity for some excursion being so close to Washington DC and seeing our nation's capital. But um everything that we got from that conference was just so impactful and usable and relights
005that fire um so that we can spread it here too. All right. I too want to express a heartfelt thank you um to to all of you for uh letting us travel um as Krie said to the the conference was in Virginia. I traveled to DC and then got to learn the metro a little bit. So, that was fun. Um, but I want to start back with when um I was trying to create like a little timeline of when Jod came in and the train the trainer program really started and took off and my thanks to her. Um and then all of you for just continuing that support and seeing that we can um continue to go to a conference that is so important to all of us, not to us but to our students,
006our teachers. Um so as a trainer um from math recovery to here in the district, I've trained 85 teachers and I feel like that's very important to share with you because 85 teachers impact I can't even tell you how student and um so when you go to the conference you are um you're elevating your your teaching and your thinking and your knowledge and then you're leveraging that when you come back and we're hopeful that Carrie then also can move forward because we're looking for a fraction champion and you know we went to Christina and we're like you know this is really important that we maintain that train the trainer program um because then you're not spending that that money, right, to send that constantly sending people um and and it's very expensive. And so we
007just felt, you know, yes, we could have, you know, sent you a card and said thank you, but it was really important for us to thank you personally and and be hopeful that maybe we and then as well as teachers can visit the next conference as Carrie was saying in in a couple years. So thank you. Thank you so much for um I asked Christina many times correct and and thankfully um all of you and Christina said so thank you so much. I'm glad that you all are embracing um enrichment and development professional development because it is so important you know and to be able to bring it back and share with people. So, thank you for taking that opportunity and for sharing and thanks for bringing back the fresh ideas and and sharing them
008with your team because that's what we are. We're a team. We're here to work together and and um I know that that that is important for all of us. But like Lynette just said, the enrichment that's very important because inevitably there's always an extra something that you grasp and it come back in your life and that helps you with maybe something that you where you began at, but it also might blossom into something new. So thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you. Thank you for coming. Can I ask can I ask you what a fraction champion is? Yeah. So a champion um for math recovery is like that train the trainer um coach. And so once um to become a champion, they require that you go through um certain steps with trainings because
009they want to make sure that you really understand the foundation and that you understand how to utilize it. And so, um, Yavon's been a champion with AVMR and the foundational pieces of math, so the addition subtraction for our younger kiddos with early numerousy and she's gone a little bit into the multiplication division. So, we've worked together there and she was able to train me then. Um but we have a large um opportunity to continue this into the middle school and the high school. And even though fractions is just introduced in third grade, our middle school students are struggling. And so to be able to provide some um opportunities for teachers to help them reach their students in ways that are more meaningful for them and can connect some of the earlier learning that they do
010have and that they've got to what new learning that is taking place is is really critical. So just being a champion is is being a certified trainer through the mass recovery program. And um I think they call us champions because it takes a lot of work to do every single piece of what they require of us. So um when they say we're ready, they know we're ready. Um, and so it's coming from a student many years ago that I I did pretty well in school, but math was a real struggle for me until I got into college. And I honestly I think if it hadn't been for my mom, I may have thought I wasn't smart enough to go because I struggled with math. And then I got into my college math courses and things
011were started to make sense and then it was really fun for me and I I really enjoyed that. And so I I think that if you can find a way to get kids to really understand it and kind of get excited about math at an earlier age, then it just becomes easier and it becomes fun. So I appreciate all the work that you're doing to make that happen. I think that's important. We work really hard for our kids to say, "I am a reader. I am a writer. I am a scientist." And now we too need to make sure that we have them say, "I am a math." So at the conference this year, one of the keynotes talked about maths, mathematician, maths, and it was just I was like, I don't think that's sounds
012right. That's is that you know, but readers read, writers write, and math's math. Yeah. Well, thank you for that. I was just glad that I learned how to convert fractions to decimals. Right around that just kind of pain away, right? Well, thank you very much. Appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Thanks for coming. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Not used to being this early in the meetings. I get it. I didn't even think about that with that with that time change. You know, that's something that people aren't we're used to, but the public uh board and and staff, thanks for having me tonight. um make my annual pilgrimage to the boards of trustees to present the Bochi's budget. Uh as you'll recall, maybe maybe not. Um the Bochis is a cooperative between CWC 7
013Fremont County School Districts and Hot Springs One to provide the post-secondary op opportunities for our Fremont and Hot Springs County high school students. Um the state uh statute requires that we provide high school students the opportunity to earn at least 12 college credits for free. Oh kids, sorry. By the time they graduate high school and we fund the program through the Bochi's Mill Levy, which is CWC levies in Fremont County and then Hot Springs School District 1 levies in Hot Springs County. Um with uh the passage of the um property tax cuts this year, it'll see a significant impact on the Bochi's budget. Uh anticipating about a 25% reduction from last year. So uh revenue estimate about $340,000. Um, our biggest challenge with this budget is we have tremendous dual enrollment participation and a lot
014of students taking a lot of credits straight from CDBC and Bochis pays the college tuition for those credits. Um, but the budget revenue isn't sufficient enough to cover all of the expenses for this Fremont County Bochis program. Um, and with that, uh, we're we're recommending that the program put a cap on the number of dual enrollment credits that students, not credits, but courses that a student can take while they're in high school. Um, so in meetings with superintendents and and staff, we set that number at 10 uh courses throughout their high school career. If you think of a course as maybe a three credit hour class, that's still 30 credit hours that a a student can get from dual enrollment straight taking the class straight from CWC. Um, uh, typical year for college, 15 credit
015hours a semester. So that's a year's worth of college. This pro, uh, proposal doesn't limit concurrent enrollment participation. So they can take as many courses that are offered for concurrent enrollment at the high school. Um, this would just impact the dual enrollment side of things. Um, so I I supplied some information on that proposal. 75 to 80% of our high school students are only taking one or two classes for dual enrollment a semester anyways. So the way we kind of got to the 10 number um is maybe a sophomore might take one dual enrollment class per semester, a junior two, and a senior two. So that would be 10 courses in a semester plus the six or five that they're filling the rest of their high school day with regular high school courses could be
016concurrent enrollment. So um we feel like that still provides a sufficient opportunity for our students and you know if if years where the revenue goes up we might be able to to change that um and increase opportunity again. But uh so that that's what's going on in Fremont County. You also have to approve the hot springs budget. Hot Springs. Um, we spend Fremont County money on Fremont County students. Hot Springs money on Hot Springs students. Uh, they're also anticipating a a revenue decrease, but with reserve funding that was available, um, the Hot Springs budget will be kept at a quarter mill and that's sufficient enough to cover the Hot Springs budget. Um, any questions about what was submitted in the board packet for you? I do have a quick question, Matt. Yeah. What is the
017CWC support line for 129,000 that shows on Fremont County's budget but not Hot Springs? That's um that's all of the behind the scenes kind of stuff. IT services, um financial aid, uh business office services, all those kind of behind those behind the scenes. The way the best way to kind of describe it is all the additional fees that would be paid for concurrent enrollment kind of courses um to run it that is making up a part a portion of that. Um so that's that's to operate um the college. So, when we don't have enough funds to cover the dual enrollment tuition like we did this previous year, um that $129,000 really supplants that um is covering that already. I just noticed it wasn't on the Hot Springs budget and I was curious why it's on
018one and not on the other. Uh because most of Hot Springs is made up through the dual enrollment. Okay. Tuition fees. Um they don't have much concurrent, huh? not not like Fremont County's schools do. Yeah. So, one of kind of one of our big things for me anyway is that we when we graduate kids from CWC and high school at the same time. And I know that's not very many kids like this year, what was it? Three, six total. Six total. Two uh Shosonyi, two Riverton, two homeschool. Okay. Uh so if we wanted to make up the difference so that those kids could do that in free and 25 district 25 how could we do that? I I don't know that answer. So for the state statute does say that if uh for a course
019to be dual uh credit that the student or the family can't have an expense. So if the high school wants to also grant credit for a college course, the student can't pay for it or their parents can't pay for it. Um we Yeah, that was so the district would have to figure out, right? How could our district to cover that cost cover that? Yeah. Um I don't I don't know. We could do a half mill ourselves. The challenge with that is that every board every rep or district on the board would have to also let me. I don't know if that's true. I think it is true. I found um uh an opinion from uh the CBC lawyer from a few years ago that said if if the districts were going to levy, they would
020each have to levy. I can remember when the first CWC uh boies existed and Lander is the one who started the money coming in as a dual or concurrent enrollment piece for tuition. At that time, CWC was using all the Bosey's money to build microwave stations uh for smart schools cruise and they wanted to put one over to Jackson that got voted down and that's what ended that particular post. CWC dropped out and then when they came back Lander started just doing their own mill in that original Boseis and they're the ones who actually created the model that CWC Bose is using today. Uh so at that point, you know, that's that's one lawyer's opinion. It's not the state's opinion. Our lawyer said that we couldn't spend money on more than half of it. That
021if we wanted to go with two two Boseies, we'd have to do a quarter and a quarter. Should we talk about this later? But then the mill the only opinion I've ever heard from the attorney general was that that was not the case that we could do a half mill for any Boseies we joined. So, and that's the attorney general's opinion. That was back in about 1999. So your your question would be can district just one district as a part of this board just levy themselves to cover any additional because you're one district basically. Yeah. That's an interesting thought. I' I'd be willing to ask. Sure. Um I'm not saying to do it this year. Yeah. But it is something that we It wouldn't have to be a or a half mill. We could we
022could do it at your own it, right? It doesn't need to be the full $340,000 for just your own district. It would be about a Well, 340,000 is that Riverton for That's No, that's for the whole county. Yeah, that's the whole It's not. So, we would Yeah, we wouldn't want to pay for Lander and Do and everybody else. Yeah. And probably 140pecially. What is the records? It's a it's a it's a half. It's 140,000 or something. Yeah. In any event, I mean, it's I realize that in the grand scheme of things, it's not that many kids. Two kids in Riverton, but it's the principle of the thing. Well, it's that's a pretty that's a that's a pretty awesome problem to have. Well, yes. you know, I mean, to to be able to to have that
023occur because um I had talked to um I remember another parent, they had asked me about that about that we had two students. I said, "Well, there were six within the county and I and two from Shosonyi, two from Riverton, and two homes school." And for two from Shony to do it, that's awesome. Yeah, it is really awesome. Pretty big deal. So my quick question on this too, um, is everybody limited or just the school district kids? So are the homeschool kids limited? Yeah, home school is limited to 10 10 courses as well. Just was curious. I didn't touch that board, right? Yeah. And homeschool students, um, the educational savings accounts can be used to pay for college courses. So that's their avenue if they want more college courses covered. Um, they can use that.
024the on the flip side, the public school students are getting the concurrent enrollment courses that those students aren't able to join in. Yeah, I just was curious. So, thank you. And don't misunderstand. I'm not trying to denigrate any of the work that you've done. I think you're doing a great job of promoting this and continuing it. I just wondered what we could do if we decided that we wanted to do something. So, I'll um take this to um meetings with my administration um and we could query like the uh community college commission and the department of ed to see what their thoughts are on on individual districts levying on behalf of the Boise board. Um and if they have we're kind of unique in Fremont County because we have so many districts in the same
025county, right? Most BOSIES are just one county and one college. Yeah. And if they have any additional information as to what Carl was talking about, if there's been anything moving forward from the the attorney general's position any I don't think there has either. I don't remember anything. So, but I thought, you know, we can still ask those questions. It's a good idea. Yeah. All right, Matt. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you for your time. Thanks, Matt. Thanks for your time. I just remembered my daughter mentioned I met you originally in ASU. Yep. line registering for college. Yep. Checking in in Tempe, Arizona. Lander and Riverton standing right next to each other. Yeah. Isn't that funny? Go all the way down. You go all the way there and then here you are. Small
026world, right? That was a long time. Claire. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, our next Bochi's board meeting is June 23rd. So, if you'll just send your recommendation with your board rep to that board meeting. Thank you. Thank you. June 20. Yeah, that's right. She already forgot. I already forgot when it was. It's in my calendar. Fremont County Board is waiting until the Boseies is waiting till the 30th to get the last number from county. This is a weird It's It's a challenge. Hurry up. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. I promise I'll be there. All right. For the board, um Carl, would you like to start? Sure. Um I spent the weekend watching club soccer at Casper. Got a little bit of a sunburn, which I shouldn't do, but that was kind of fun. One of my
027grandkids has been asked to come to the summer. She's an eighth grader going to come to the summer high school. That's awesome. Soccer practices and do weight training with them. Cool. So, she's a she's she's pretty fun to watch. And then u you know the graduation was nice. It was People were complaining about how hot it was, but I didn't think it was that on the floor. But it was it was a nice graduation. I thought it went smoothly and I liked the uh brochure this year. The It was really nice. This the slick paper and and it was well done. I thought it was it was a nice piece. Um this thing with the all the taxes uh being quartered and h haveved uh it's you know if everybody in the county gets a
028quarter off you know which is what the this big piece all the people that got half off was supposed to be like 12 billion dollars just for the county and So like the wreck board, you know, whatever your plans were, you know, to fund, hopefully you have some reserves to to do it because you are going to be down 18 to 25% too. Yes. Uh we'll be okay. Yeah. It's it's just and it's it's sustained. It's going to be that way for a couple of years. Uh so the 20 this the 50% for seniors is for two years. So this next is the first year of that and then the 25%'s also a two-year one and so it you know it's two years and then I think that one will last one year longer than
029the other but uh it's going to be something and you know the idea of us doing a half mill or a quarter mill to help with uh CWC in a small hot, you know, it's it's kind of nasty to do, you know, and it, you know, because you're competing with the city, the county, and, you know, we're backfilled, the the school board, you know, we're backfilled. They couldn't take that local resource from us. So, it's backfilled on us and we're we're not going to see the the cut except through our Boseies uh partners. Possibly ADM with the schools that are coming. No, not so much. The plot is what it is because that's the Supreme Court said that's what it is. But you're saying we may lose ADM to the 7,000 to the if we
030lose students. Yeah. To the But that's a That's a poverty school there. So, it's not going to be that big a number. You had to have a poverty clause for the or he didn't or he would have vetoed it. So, they added that at Oh, at the I thought they did away with that. So, that's good to know. I didn't realize that either because I saw the Catholic school saying that anybody could get it. I don't think anybody can get it. But, I didn't you have to go through a process to You do. They have to There's an application process. I believe that they have to go through and if they don't meet those the those little if it doesn't have the poverty then it's going to be there'll be legislation or not legislation but
031litigation there will be litigation lawsuits about they just had that decision in Oklahoma where they the Supreme Court struck down funding but our it's our constitution not the right said you can't fund right stated in article clause I'll have to look at it. I thought they took that out. I think they probably put it back because he said he wouldn't sign. I didn't see that. I'll have to go look at it. But other than that, this is a great uh you know, it's wonderful to see. We've been paying for kids to go to college uh in high school, right? Years and years and years. So, it's a great program. Uh I applaud the work that they do and the kids that doing it. I know my daughter was concerned about her senior and when she
032saw that it would the concurrent was not touched, she was, you know, that relieved. Yeah, that sort of relieved her edges and she'd probably be here. It's one of those things where the kids that take full advantage of it are the kids that are taking full advantage of education. you kind of I don't know in my opinion we want to lift them up a little bit right so I guess we're meeting it for a bunch of stuff next Tuesday also probably with us here in a bit yeah we're actually um going to need to reschedule the work session so um we're going to have we're we'll be having an expulsion hearing next Tuesday um and so that's on my list to talk to about when it's my turn. We'll hear about it after Jody gets
033done talking. Yeah. Well, you know, we might be here all night now. No. No. Um, first of all, what I want to do is um I I want to be sure and let the individuals who came for retirement know um I appreciated you guys and and them their understanding so that I could attend the the restaurant. It was it was pretty exciting. And I have an I have an aunt that my is are my grandson's double great aunt and she used to own and run Betty's Pizza in Riverton, Wyoming for a long time. And she goes to a lot of things. And so she came to the restaurant with us as family and she was beyond amazed and excited that this program exists because and she had conversations with her grandson too and just about
034what it takes to run a business and all those working parts. So she was pretty thrilled that we do that at a middle school level and and are still you know conveying that. And I also wanted to tell the retirees thank you for their service to our district. all the things and the many many students that they've touched and some of them who touched my children when they were students as well. Graduation I thought was really really awesome. It was different walking in with the lights out though in the gym because the gym was dark so that was kind of strange. But outside of that I thought that was really nice um service. I went to um I managed to go to regional soccer and I went to state soccer this past weekend um in
035Gillette and and it's our kids really showed some improvement and some steps forward. Some of them brought some hardware home, our girls did and our boys were that close. Um those shootout situations, I've lived through that as the mother of a goalie. I my watched my daughter have to do that and I still get all the feels when that lines up out there and they have to do that because that's a tough situation. Um I think that that's about it. Matt, thank you for coming in and and discussing everything with with everyone here and and you know it wasn't lost on the Bo Cheese board either with the concurrent enrollment. That was we I'm I was relieved and we talked about that at that meeting that we're keeping that so that kids can still benefit
036from that. Um I think that's pretty much it for me. So So um it's been kind of a busy couple of weeks here. Uh, I did get to do some fun trips like the Willow Creek track meets. I have two grandkids in that program and that was fun. And then I went to the awards uh they they did some awards at Willow Creek uh a couple days after that and we got to see a really wonderful presentation slideshow that the kids did for Danny McDonald and for Jeremy Hill and that was really cool to see that. Just very heartwarming. I can't believe there were not more tears when they were speaking, but it was it was great. And uh then watched a little bit of baseball. My I have a grandson playing baseball and the
037Roy Peek bat tournament is this weekend here in Riverton. And so that will be kind of a fun event. We'll have quite a few schools that'll be here for or teams that will be here for that. So that will be hopefully that will be fun and we'll win some games. And uh other than that, I didn't that that's about all I've done in the last couple of weeks other than having a lot of family in for my mom-in-law's uh memorial service that happened a week ago Saturday. And was kind of interesting that I was looking at some documents from her trust and I happened to see in addition to my mom-in-law's signature, which was always beautiful handwriting, violet fleek was on that document, too. So, it was kind of neat to see those two signatures
038on that, you know, on that document. Just kind of remember those two. So, thank you. Yeah. So, that's that's what that's what we've been up to. So, all right. I just want to thank everybody for letting me miss graduation. That was really hard for me to do, but I did have um a good meeting in um Charleston and it was a great city to visit. So, um I do want to send thoughts and prayers to young Mr. Rhoden for his healing. Um hopefully things will all work out for the best. So um that's all I have. I don't have anything this evening. Sorry. Well, I got to go to three graduations which was a privilege. Um that was that was awesome to see the the different graduation. Went to the college graduation. That was very
039beautiful graduation. And then ours ours was pretty fantastic. And then then the the Thursday graduation morning was fun. That was very fun. And uh then I studied for the the conference uh the supposed to be a Zoom meeting for the how how we uh get our our appropriations through the money. So I studied and studied studied and then I couldn't get in the program. Oh gosh. And so it was time to get in and it wouldn't let me in. Wouldn't let me in. So it was I missed that one. So maybe I can get on the next one. Public office return. No, not the public office recalibration. Recalibration. Recalibration. That's what I was trying to think of what fun. That's all I got. Thank you. Colton. Nothing for me tonight. Thank you. Okay. Next time
040I'll see you guys, I'll I'll have a a new baby. Awesome. That's exciting. That's super exciting. He's been working really hard in this show. We want to see pictures and you got some sun just projects before she comes. Awesome, Jada. Thank you, Roy. Yeah, I've had I make a a big disturbance. Um, so, uh, Superintendent Ivar and I presented to the select committee on tribal relations on May 22nd. We presented data that I previously presented to the school board and answered any questions that they have. um they are scheduled to meet again in October I believe and I think we'll still be um K12 education will still be a part of the um of the agenda. So we potentially will be asked to participate and testify again in front of that committee. In addition to
041that, uh, we have this week re or last week, excuse me, received a payment from Fremont 38 in the amount of $190,932 for our Fremont 38 transition program. And you may recall that this is the program that um that we receive half of the impact aid funding that Fremont 38 receives for any high school student that that is in attending our our school district. So So this year that's um that that amount is just over $190,000. Uh and then we have also received our final payment for our impact aid. We just received an email this uh this afternoon. So our basic support payment for this fiscal year totals $133,496,000 and then our children with disability payment uh totals $668,27. Um, so we, like I said, we received our final payments this week, um, or just
042today. So that brings up our total to $21,73 for our impact aid for fiscal year 25. Um, we will expect about $100,000 more next year given, you know, all things considering. And then uh if our um learning opportunity threshold payment stays the same. And then fine. Yes. Thanks. And then finally uh I put a flyer uh underneath your agendas for our JOM end of the year picnic. Of course, our JOM um parent committee uh schedules a fun end of the year gathering. um after school is out. And so this year it will be on June 4th. It'll be at JC Park this year from 4 to 7. And so it's always a fun event. We'll have bounce houses, games, door prizes, and more that the JOM committee sponsors. And then um we just ask folks
043who attend to bring a side dish, but uh the the committee themselves will sponsor the the main meal. Additionally, this year will be uh a little bit different because uh we will honor our 2025 RHS graduates with their star boats this year. Unfortunately, we were not able to do that at graduation um because uh the the order was not fully completed, but now we have all we have enough quilts for all of our graduates. So, we will be able to do that um and have them embroidered in time for the end of the year picnic. So, we invite you to attend. Thank you. At school. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I didn't this year. I missed it. Christina, um just one thing. Uh I worked with I put together a committee this year for um approving our
044professional development uh with the with funds going away. We put together essentially um a committee that would be based on when uh the state WDE is doing their standards renewals. And so we tried to put put in line with that. And so we're trying to get more clear of what that'll look like for staff that's asking to go and um get to be a part of a professional development that is leaving outside of our district. Those tend to be costly. And so we put a committee together and had some criterion and a rubric and then they submitted those proposals and then we've ranked those and so talking to like for instance Carrie and Yvon talking tonight they'll do that same thing if they want to go again and then based on what is up that
045year if it's an ELA year if it's a you know ELA literacy year if it's a math year um a science year those type of things we'll rank all those to decide just trying to be more consistent with who's going and making sure that we're doing it just like them saying they're trainers. I mean, that's a great way to to spend your money because they're coming back and training our our uh staff, which makes sense. So, anyway, just want to give you an idea. It's not just everyone gets to go. We are trying to put forward some type of criterion and then we go through that and also share the wealth um for staff that maybe hasn't gotten those opportunities. So, How much has the feds cut on uh professional development title? So Jody can
046speak a lot to that problem. Well, maybe not a lot, but I mean we are like waiting uh we were able to get our title one allocations but our other allocations we're waiting on. So what that committee essentially did was based on our rubric and our criterion for what is up uh this coming year is really a math centered year. Um and so we ranked everything based on that and then once we get our funds we're going to be able to know which ones we're going to essentially get to pay for them to go or attend or bring in whatever makes the most sense. Is that something that we could when we get our trainers back, you know, we put the money out that we could offer training opportunities for other districts for a fee
047from our That's a good idea. So, less travel. I'm just trying to think. It might be I don't know. It's just something to think. I was just We've done that before in the past. They've done like schools will reach out and say, "Hey, we're bringing in we know that a lot of schools are using this particular program. We're bringing it in. You can do a cost share." Um, one of the things that Jod and I have been working on is um, we're doing on our we have three district level PD days where we get to create something. So, our staff actually we spent this last week before school got out and sent out a huge survey to say what is it you need and then based on that we said what are you willing to
048share with your colleagues because we have expertise in our in our own area that um they're willing to shing share that. So, we're going to have many PD sessions on those days where it'll be about a 45 minute sessions. Um, staff will be able to sign up ahead of time. They'll be able to see a a list of what's available. Um, our staff will be the ones presenting and then people can go to it and they can and then we'll try to rotate those throughout through those three days. Some of them will be um similar, some of them in terms of offering the same thing all three times. Some will be adding to it. It just depends on what the need is. Yeah, that's a good way to be able to like share the wealth.
049I mean, as far as like what I'm saying is is you're we're spending that money on training those individuals when we come home and our staff actually benefits from those dollars being spent. So, you're you're getting more bang for your buck back in the 90s. Yeah. Long time ago when I first got on the board, there used to be a speaking to your idea there. We used to run a academy, Fremont County Academy. It was sort of like we'd get a good keynote speaker who would run a session. Do you remember him as a teacher? It's like 19 90 Kim McKinnon was running them and um yeah, I remember him. I had a lot of different trainings though. Yeah. And it was at 25 years. It was at C or it was at the U
050uh room career career center. Career center. No, it was big. We invited other, you know, they had to help pay for the speaker and then we'd have the people that had learned things in the district doing little it was sort of like a mini uh conference, you know, it was just for Fremont County. And I mean, we brought in over the two years they did that, we brought in some pretty high what is the guy's name? Uh I the first time I saw some of the gotos in education was here in uh Riverton and then you saw them at the national stage. You know they were the guys that were the keynote speakers at the national but they had not made that little jump yet. They were just you know at the edge. Yeah. Right.
051And it was it was well attended and we did make some money out of it. That was the main thing that we were trying to do in was trying to generate some dollars and then co-op getting these people in. It was, you know, it was worth the effort because back that was the years that they just taken the money away from us. Yeah. uh all these career ed money and we're supposed to give it back to us over five years and they already did. So, it's a good idea. CES I know benefited from Fremont 25 and Fremont one with some of the trainings that they did collaboratively with us like on some restraint kinds of things that are pretty typical to whatever population you're at and some behavior kinds of things and some early childhood
052strategies they were using for you know a variety of things and and it kind of helped us spark some interest in the teachers that we had there and some of the special ed folks and also that helped us to figure out what we needed to send people on for more professional development. And so it was we really appreciated that as well because the the dollars are really limited with early childhood and what you can do and you pretty much have to write grants to the workforce development fund and some of our teachers had to spend their own dollars to go. So it was we really appreciated that. So, yeah. Cody, would you like to tell us your um So, I'll update you really quickly on the grants. We did get our title one allocation. It
053is down um but not too significantly um manageable amount. And as always, it's a preliminary allocation. They'll give us another allocation and then they'll give us a final allocation. So, there's still a lot of wiggle room. title two and title four. They're telling us to plan on 85% of last year's allocation at this time. Um we still don't have the numbers for that. We're still not guaranteed that we will get title two or title four. Um so hope hopefully those will will be granted um to us. And um we do need to instead of having a work session next week, we'll be having an expulsion hearing. So um because expulsion hearings are difficult, probably best not to try to have a work session afterwards. Um so if we could try to find a time to
054reschedu a work session. So, I mean, we can we can limit our conversation if we need to, you know, at a work session so that we have it right before a board meeting or we can pick another night that's not a board meeting. Um, we can just get down to business and do our thing. So, I don't know if you want to try June 10th right before I won't I won't be able to attend. I won't be here. I'll be in out of town. Okay. 17th is the 17th between Tuesday between the next two. Personally, I would not prefer to do it before a regular meeting just because it gets too pushed together. Okay. Too much pressure till the 17th possibly. Anyone opposed to the 17th? Well, potentially because I'll potentially be at the recalibration
055meetings in person the 17th and you're kind of we kind of need to have you here if you're have you. So, I mean I cannot go to that but I do have it on my calendar. Is there any other day besides Tuesday that What about like a Thursday? Yeah. Can we do it on the 12th? Well, what about Yeah. What can we do it on the 5th? I I of June. I won't be here. I'm gone. I'm gone for a week in there. But that's a When do you leave the fourth and I don't come back till the 11th? Can we do it on the 2nd on Monday? Um I have a I'm attending one of those recalibration things that evening. That's the That's the rec board. Yeah. Okay. About the 12th. The 12th. Yeah.
056What about the 12th? Thursday the 12th. It's like hurting cats. It is. It's like hurting cats. Listen, I mean, we're having this hard of a time getting our leadership team together right now as well. So, just I mean, I don't know what it is about schedules, but it seems a lot more crazy this spring and and early summer than it has the past three years, right? So, June 12th works for me. Okay. Okay. 12th. Let's call it the 12th then. What time at five? Does five work for everyone? Does five work for you? Five works for me. Okay. Okay. I can leave work early to put this on right and we could start with having just a a small dinner, right? Like a something to eat. So if you're not right here at 5, we
057could plan on starting 510, 5:15. That works. All right. What else? baseball. So, I think that that's it for right now. I had something else and I can't remember what it was because I didn't write it down. Just that the expulsion hearing will start at five like how the work session was planned for. Okay, that's good to know. Yeah, I hit six. So, that is at five on the 3. On the third. Yes. Yeah, correct. Okay. For myself, the graduation was cool. I mean, I didn't really think that I was gonna enjoy so much shaking all of those kids' hands. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Oh, it was really good. Yeah. Um, some of them don't know how to shake hands, but that's okay. And they did get a couple of complaints about
058it being hot. Um, so when we redo the bleachers and the floor and all that stuff, is we going to do anything like with air handling or So we had quite a meeting about that this morning. Do you want to touch base on that? No, you can go ahead. You can take Come on. Uh, yeah, we had a meeting about it this morning. And so right now they um Ed gave us some quotes on like for the floor and for the bleachers and we discussed items. We decided um at the meeting that he was going to reach out to some architects to um try to get a bid for that. So, he was going to try to get put out a bid and get architects to try to get that planning going. But right now,
059we're hoping the spring of 2026 to to maybe start that. Um but it's still at the beginning of stages there. So, as far as all the heating and cooling, they were going to maybe look into that, but they were more concerned with like the the lighting and the audio and stuff like that. Um, but they are looking in for some ideas to try to help out with that. Well, and just I don't know I it's all extra money. More money, more money. But it, you know, when they got everything all tore apart, it just kind of seems like a good time to handle a known problem. Not anymore. Um, but you know, so I think a part of it was they believe that it's our current electrical, our current lighting system and the way that
060we use it that causes some of the heat issues really. And so one of the things is that you we'll have a a remote on our phone to be able to and so we can dim the lights or we can and so that will be helpful. Um, but we can certainly add that to his list of looking into Well, and I don't know if it's I'm sure it's going to be a lot of money. Everything is a lot of money. But it just I don't know. Air handling is always always a problem in any big space that you got a lot of people in. Um that's all I've got. Awesome. You know, when you were talking about that, are we moving ahead on that? Is it called friends of tonkin that we were talking about
061doing for the for the the maybe during the retreat? Yeah, Ally was supposed Okay. Allie's not here, but she was working on that. So, Ally did bring back a report and told us all who was on the committee and I I believe all of that. I I can't I could pull up the minutes from that. Wasn't she going to get us reinstated? Yeah, she had to work on the reinstatement and do some of that the the leg work. I was just thinking the reunion's coming up, the all school reunion, and we were thinking about maybe seeing if people would want to donate during that time as well. And so that's that's coming up. Just just saying that. In July. Okay. Any other board members or staff want to contribute? I just realized why I was
062up to CWC graduations because my granddaughter graduated. Congratulations. I was like, why was I there? I'm going, well, I didn't even mention that. That's a big thing. Big thing. Good for you. Do we have any visitors or delegations that would like to address the board? I don't see any. Um, and do we have anyone that would like to make a statement or ask questions about the school calendar? Hearing none, we'll move on to action items. Uh the first action item is to consider an administrative recommendation to approve outofstate travel request. Mr. Chair, I would move the board approve the out ofstate travel request for Riverton High School FFA students to travel to Indianapolis, Indiana in October of 2025 for the National FFA Convention per policy. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing
063none, we'll grant that request. Consider an administrative recommendation to approve an outofstate travel request. Mr. Chair, I would move the board approve the out ofstate travel request for the Riverton High School Multicultural Club students to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah in June of 2025 for a university tour and lagoon trip as per policy. Second. Sounds pretty cool. I might like to go to Lagoon. Any discussion? All in favor? I Any opposed? Hearing? None. We'll approve that. Uh consider an administrative recommendation to approve the 2526 CWC Bochi's budget. Mr. Chair, I would recommend or I would move the board approve the 2025 2026 CWC boed. Second. Discussion. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. We'll approve that budget. Uh, consider an administrative recommendation to adopt policies. Mr. Chair, I move the board adopt policy
0644116, non-school sponsored student travel. Policy 2065, procurement policy and procedures. Policy 4085, homeschooling. Policy 4085R, homeschooling. Policy 3220, sex designated facilities on first reading. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. We'll approve those policies. Uh, consider an administrative recommendation to adopt a school calendar. Mr. Mr. Chair, I would move the board adopt calendar option one for the 2026 2027 school year. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll adopt calendar option one. Consider an administrative recommendation to award a bid. Mr. Mr. Chair, I move the board award a bid to for the IP address management project to converge one in the bid amount of $52,960. Second. Any discussion? I think I have some. What is that? That was my question. So that's a part of our security project
065that we are required to do in order to be insured. Okay. Security for the whole district. It's cyber security. Okay. So the IP addresses, each individual computer has its own IP address. Oh, okay. And it manages that system. I see. Okay. Perfect. Good enough. Uh all in favor. Any opposed? Hearing none. We'll adopt that. Uh consider an administrative recommendation to accept resignations. Mr. Chair, I would move the board accept the resignations of Jesse Corno as a Riverton Middle School head boys basketball coach, Michelle Steinhoff Anderson as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach, Phil Orbell as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach, Annette Ben Thornon as a Riverton High School assistant speech coach. Effective immediately. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none, we'll accept those resignations. Consider an administrative recommendation
066to offer contracts. Mr. Chair, I would move the board offer a contract to Molly Thornton Bergen as a part-time Riverton Middle School musical theater teacher. Valerie Krippen as a rendevous elementary sped teacher. Kimber Tower as a part-time Riverton High School choir teacher. Ross Anderson as a Riverton Middle School head football coach. Brett Hoover as a Riverton Middle School head boys basketball coach. Faith Wallowing Bull as a Riverton Middle School head cross country coach, David Collins as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach, Addison Thomas as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach, and Justin Miller as a Riverton Middle School assistant track coach. All effective for the 2025 2026 school year. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Any any opposed? Hearing none, we'll offer those contracts. Now, we're on to information items. Uh, there was
067a donation of $1,000 received from injury prevention for the Aspen Elementary, which includes food, field trips, t-shirts, etc., which is pretty cool. Aspen, somebody down there's thumping for Aspen. Uh, new policy 5312, classified staff as coaches. New policy 2080-R2 compensation non-exempt staff travel revised policy 4115 school sponsored field trips and activities and revised policy 4115-R field trip procedures. Uh the central office administration offers office hours are Monday through Thursday 7:30 to 4 closed on Fridays. Notifications of habitually truent willfully absent and 10day drop students are in the executive content. Uh certified staff changes transfer transfers effective for the 2526 school year. Denny Lou Nichols to an RMS sped teacher. Adria Lad to a Willow Creek fifth grade teacher. Uh April Offstein to a Aspen ideal teacher. Classified staff changes. We have resignations effective May 23rd
068of 2025. Willow Creek parah Geraldine Martin. Riverton Middle School parah Elizabeth Henry. Riverton High School parah Justin Miller Willow Creek Parah Kaylee Lang Linan and a transfer Patricia Granland to sped family resource advisor effective for the 2526 school year. We have uh administrative leave and separation notices in the executive content. Didn't we just hire Justin Miller as a track coach? I think that Okay. Yes. So, he's going to be not working as a parah any longer, but an outside employee as a child. He had a job opportunity. Okay. I was like, "Wait a minute." I know. I heard that. I And when we were going just real quick when we were going down through, you know, all the for the travel and things like that. I was thinking about um the middle school students went
069to Salt Lake for the Salt Lake and they won down there. the band for the band. Yeah, they won down there. So, that's kind of cool and I wanted to congratulate them on that. So, Jay, do you not have to give us enrollment anymore? What the heck? I know. Now, what's your deal? I got a question to ask. No. So, um, and I meant to bring this up earlier and I forgot. I got an email from Lou Bechum asking me if we were planning on having a ceremony when we opened the um auditorium and I told her yes we would I think she and Terry Snyder have been in in been talking and he was asking as well and I said I've certainly we would make sure we invited them. Well, in that same vein,
070I've had a couple of people ask me about are you going to open it up to the public before it, you know, like they want to see it. Yeah, I've had people ask me that, too. I think that would be a good idea. So, I think after we have the final punch list all signed off on and it's in our control, which probably will be closer to the end of June, then sometime in July, we could do that. It might be nice to have um a ribbon cutting or something first. And um I sent you a message that I had received from um Annette Ben Thornton that she was very willing to bring in some people to put do a performance as well. So that's something that'll have to be on our work session agenda
071to decide and then um make sure that we include all of the people that were instrumental in making the auditorium happen because it was not me. Well, and the community they they need to kind of see what we put a lot of money into and They're kind of excited about it. Yeah, I'm I'm excited. I'm excited. Anybody have anything else they want to bring up? No.